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Bill	Recognition of tribal court money judgments: tribal sales taxes.	Existing federal law recognizes the sovereignty of federally recognized Indian tribes and provides for financial, developmental, and operational support of tribal justice systems. Existing law, the Tribal Court Civil Money Judgment Act, governs the procedure by which the superior courts of the state recognize and enter tribal court money judgments of any federally recognized Indian tribe. The act does not apply to tribal court money judgments for taxes, fines, or other penalties.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1139	California AB 1139 (20232024)	bill	Recognition of tribal court money judgments tribal sales taxes	enacted	Garcia	6	19	5	2023-02-15	2023-09-01	openstates	ocd-bill/ea21521d-68a9-471f-8ffb-3037111185a2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1139	8e35ec813ed46252fb16e79daa7da5c703ad8f32c2c0626c9479ae8fded0fc8a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1139 (20232024) — Recognition of tribal court money judgments: tribal sales taxes.

Existing federal law recognizes the sovereignty of federally recognized Indian tribes and provides for financial, developmental, and operational support of tribal justice systems. Existing law, the Tribal Court Civil Money Judgment Act, governs the procedure by which the superior courts of the state recognize and enter tribal court money judgments of any federally recognized Indian tribe. The act does not apply to tribal court money judgments for taxes, fines, or other penalties.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/15/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/07/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1139 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1139 Garcia Consent Calendar Second Day — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1139 Garcia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB1139 Garcia et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Garcia — primary (person)
• Seyarto — coauthor (person)
• Wallis — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2023-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2023-03-30 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-05-02 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1492.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-17 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-06-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-22 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-06-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1825.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 1 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2023-08-17 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2734.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-08-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2023-09-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-09-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 138, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ea21521d-68a9-471f-8ffb-3037111185a2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).